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[quote=Anonymous][quote]At the beginning of my career , I taught at a school that used a program with key words to attempt to teach this goal. However, with this program we weren't achieving the results we hoped for. Even towards the end of the year students were still mixing up letter names and letter sounds, or forgetting letter sounds, and they weren't carrying this problem over to their reading.

So, we investigated. The first question needed to be:

Is this a standards problem (meaning that we're expecting something that's either too hard and unrealistic, or unnecessary) OR is this a curriculum problem (meaning that goal is reasonable, but the curriculum isn't helping us reach that goal)?

We investigated and decided that it was the latter, that kids this age can absolutely learn letter sounds, but that our curriculum wasn't good. We decided that it didn't contain enough direct instruction in phonemic awareness, and that the key word idea was too abstract. We added in daily games and activities that targeted phonemic awareness, and changed our presentation of the information, so that kids learned hand motions to go along with the sounds. And we got the results that we wanted.

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Sounds like you were not the teacher.  Are you a specialist or an administrator?[/quote]

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